alice seibold's wonderful narrative and she is spoken about this and i have to agree with her that you can use a journal can be an extraordinarily powerful medicine, keeping a journal and recording your feelings in processing your feelings can be extraordinarily healing but books that i'm familiar with that have sort of used the publication process as a way of merely sorting through their own form of therapy i'm opposed to because i simply, i'm kind of a snob i guess. i like books, i like being in the hands of a writer who knows what they are doing and is not using the book simply as a way of unloading their personal issues on me. i like to have some sort of echo and a writer who has a sense of the view. >> host: what do you think is more important, the therapist or the therapy the particular treatment modality that was chosen? >> guest: to be honest the therapist. there is a lot of research that factors in to my answer to that question but interestingly a researcher in the 70s look at this question and assigned a number of therapists using different therapy mortalities to treat patien